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For almost anyone in government, discussing such matters with an adversary would be illegal. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.

__________________It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. -- JayUtahI am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)My Apollo Page.

Schiff on Thursday dismissed the possibility that Trump made “a purposeful decision” to disclose the CIA hack following a discussion with the intelligence community, suggesting instead that the president handled the information recklessly.

“The president has the power to declassify whatever he wants, but this should be done as the product of thoughtful consideration and with intense input form any agency affected. For anyone else to do what the President may have done, would constitute what he deplores as 'leaks,'” Schiff said.

Schiff, a frequent Trump critic, also took to Twitter to slam the president, who has complained of leaks from the White House

I think if I was in the CIA or one of the other lettered agencies responsible for secrets, I'd be fast looking for a way to stop giving Trump anything vital that he could spill to whoever happens to be in the room at the time he wants to feel important.

Republicans got all upset that people sent Hillary information that was later classified on her non-classified system because it might have been hacked, and here we have a President who is just telling State secrets to anyone that happens to be around so he can feel like the big man. I expect this to not taken up hundreds of pages of them attacking him for it.

__________________It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. -- JayUtahI am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)My Apollo Page.

On the other side of the debate, the denial was carefully constructed using semantic games to essentially deny sources were revealed without saying the information one might use to deduce sources was revealed.

"On the other side of the debate, the denial was carefully constructed using semantic games to essentially deny sources were revealed without saying the information one might use to deduce sources was revealed."

They claim to be but then they keep working with Syria and attacking the rebels rather than attacking any actual real ISIS targets

__________________It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. -- JayUtahI am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)My Apollo Page.

Both Tillerson and McMaster deny that this actually occurred. I don't know much about these two, so maybe they are willing to lie with impunity. I don't suppose we'll ever have better evidence than the testimony of administration officials and unnamed sources.

Watch:
Trump did not disclose anything to Russians.
Instead he authorized someone to tell The Post he did.
Result: ISIS tortures its own people trying to suss out the (non-existent) mole, and the media further delegitimizes itself as fake news.
#3DChess #MasterPersuader #MAGA

That's the thing that makes this story so credible, it's just like the Trump we've come to know, it's all about bragging. Petty bragging.

Yup and it's well past time that Republicans acknowledge that his cognitive deficits can't be managed around. Saying, "It's legal," is a poor defense. It would be legal for him to issue pardons to militias murdering his "enemies" that doesn't make it right.

Both Tillerson and McMaster deny that this actually occurred. I don't know much about these two, so maybe they are willing to lie with impunity. I don't suppose we'll ever have better evidence than the testimony of administration officials and unnamed sources.

As I noted elsewhere and is being repeated on both CNN and MSNBC, the denial was carefully constructed using semantic games to essentially deny sources were revealed without denying the information one might use to deduce sources was revealed.